Popular Links

Immersive Learning Special Report

Immersive Learning Special Report

The whiteboard is dead. Teaching techniques and learning continually evolve, and engagement today is at its highest level. Passive learning – sitting in a classroom while a teacher talks – is out. Active is in. The University of Miami is providing transformative learning spaces for students. It’s developing captivating classroom projects that demand immersive teamwork. And UM students explore research and new techniques that prepare them for future success. As Gregory J. Shepherd, dean of the School of Communication, sees it: “All these newest spaces allow students to actually engage in the learning process. They look and function just like a workplace. It’s hard to get the students out of those spaces.”

The whiteboard is dead. Teaching techniques and learning continually evolve, and engagement today is at its highest level. Passive learning – sitting in a classroom while a teacher talks – is out. Active is in. The University of Miami is providing transformative learning spaces for students. It’s developing captivating classroom projects that demand immersive teamwork. And UM students explore research and new techniques that prepare them for future success. As Gregory J. Shepherd, dean of the School of Communication, sees it: “All these newest spaces allow students to actually engage in the learning process. They look and function just like a workplace. It’s hard to get the students out of those spaces.”

Simulation Hospital

The new School of Nursing and Health Studies Simulation Hospital offers a powerful new learning environment for health care professionals and communities far and wide.

The Visualization Lab at CCS

The Koenigsberg & Nadal Interactive Media Center

Students at the School of Communication using the media center are engaged in novel and innovative experiences, gaining technological expertise and learning the value of an entrepreneurial spirit and social responsibility.

The Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. SUSTAIN Lab

Inside this unique structure, scientists and researchers tinker with the controls of a 75-foot-long, 38,000-gallon wind-wave tank to simulate everything from a tropical storm to a cyclonic monster with 160-mile-per-hour winds, sea spray and storm surge.

MORE STORIES

Sounding the Alarm

A multidisciplinary team of researchers and medical professionals from the University of Miami and universities across the country has been working to address the effects of audible medical alarms within clinical settings.

Transforming 21st Century Engineering Education

Revolutionizing Medical Education at the Gordon Center

The Michael S. Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education is a long-standing renowned facility that applies advanced technology and simulation techniques to medical education at the University of Miami.